Beautiful People || Writing Goals

One goal I have for this new year is to write an entire book, and not let myself get distracted by other story ideas until I finish. It would be a first for me, but I'm trying to be optimistic, and I don't think I'm off to a bad start. Also, with working on writing consistently, I'd like to get back to participating in Beautiful People. The questions are always good for getting me thinking about my story and characters. It's fun to be able to share what I've been working on with you guys, and get some feedback on it.

So here I go!

How to clean vinyl records

Our record collection has been steadily growing, with the newest additions being three Beatles records our friends Jon and Emma gave us a Christmas gift.

The same night they gave those to us, Jon told us about a way you can clean records using glue! Wood glue or just Elmers white glue works best I guess, and we had some of the latter, and decided to give it a try!

Goodbye 2015!

Have yourself a merry little Christmas!

In preparation for playing at some nursing homes this afternoon, Becca and I, along with our friends  Jon and Emma, have been busy practicing this week.

We filmed some of our favorites, so here they are! There are a few mistakes here and there, but we had a lot of fun with it!  :)
 We hope you all have a Merry Christmas!

Leaves of three...wait, what if there are no leaves?

While on a lovely hike during Thanksgiving break, we came across different kinds of bright colored berries. We started collecting them into a fun, wintery bouquet, and the more we looked the more different kinds we found.

First, there was Bittersweet. 

It's bright scarlet berries meandered along the ground and up trees.

Then, we found these.

We didn't know what they were, but they added a nice contrast.

It then grew to include some red sumac, and evergreen sprigs, and all in all, we thought it was quite pretty.

We split the larger bouquet into two smaller ones; one for Mom, and the other to take back for our dorm room.

Our post title may have given you a hint as to what the mystery berries were soon identified as...

dun, dun, dun!

Poison Ivy!

Please pray for our mom who is still suffering the results of this terrible discovery.

Thankfully, even though Becca was the first one to find them, she's free of any rash, but I have a couple patches.

So, our lesson has been learned. Don't pick unidentified berries in the woods, please don't.